Lupe is very bright and caring. She loves to compliment people and make them smile. She is usually always happy. She loves the color pink, horses, and Barbies. She is shy but so outgoing at the same time. She always has so much to say when she gets to know someone a little bit.
Lupe was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on February 8th of 2022. Before her diagnosis, she would get sick and she would stay sick for a very long time. She ended up in the hospital for a week with multiple infections. They discovered that she was neutropenic so they sent her to a hematologist. After several visits, she ended up in the ER throwing up blood. When they tested her blood there she had pancytopenia and they saw blasts when her blood was examined with a microscope.
She has been through many lumbar punctures, a few bone marrow aspirations, and regular chemo and medications. We have struggled a lot since diagnosis. It has been hard to watch her go through all the treatments. We also live 2 hours from her treatment hospital which has been a struggle for us.
Cancer has changed our family life. I stay home while my husband works because she is unable to go to school during her current phase of treatment. We don’t really go anywhere and we distance ourselves from a lot of people.
Lupe is a very strong little girl!
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